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• Çaldıran trustee builds hotel with politicians and religious congregations 

  A 4-star hotel is being built in Çaldıran on public land by the Menzil congregation and Çaldıran municipality trustee Şefik Ensari. Allegedly, one of the secret partners of the hotel is Engin Levent Soylu, son of Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.
• Jailed HDP co-mayor of Nusaybin allowed to attend her father's funeral 

  Galip Yusufoğlu, father of imprisoned former HDP co-mayor of Nusaybin Municipality Sara Kaya, was laid to rest.
• Kurdish politician Gültan Kışanak's father laid to rest  

  Kurdish politician Gültan Kışanak buried her father Lütfi Özer in Elazığ. The former mayor of Amed, who had been imprisoned for five years, was brought from prison to Elazığ to attend the funeral.
• YJA Star guerrilla Sülehya Çelik laid to rest in Bismil 

  YJA Star guerrilla Sülehya Çelik, codenamed Nûda Sason fell a martyr in Çaldıran, province of Van, was laid to rest in Bismil.
• International Peace Delegation demands release of women's movement activists 

  International peace delegation to South Kurdistan and International initiative Defend Kurdistan demand the immediate release of activists of the women's movement in South Kurdistan.
• Sancar: Our goal is to change the government as well as the system 

  "Unless this system doesn’t change, it will not be adequate to simply point out a change in power," HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar remarked.
• HDK Women's Council warns of racist attacks in forest fire area 

  "We all live in the hell created by the capitalist, profit-oriented, exploitative, patriarchal system," says the HDK Women's Council in Muğla, warning against racist agitation in the wake of the forest fire disaster in the Mediterranean region.
• Hunger strike in prisons reaches day 254 

  The hunger strike launched by prisoners against the isolation of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on its 254th day. The solidarity hunger strike in Maxmur has reached day 233 and day 216 in Greece.
• Kurds are 'banned' from the streets of Antalya by paramilitary groups 

  While racist attacks against Kurds in Antalya continue, it has been revealed that a gang went on a "Kurdish hunt" under the guise of forest fires. Kurds in the city said they couldn't leave their houses for several days.
• HPG guerrilla Süleyman Öztürk laid to rest  

  HPG guerrilla Süleyman Öztürk, who fell a martyr in the Ömeryan region, was laid to rest.
• Öcalan's lawyers face criminal charges for saying they had not seen their client for 300 days 

  The investigation launched in 2012 against the lawyers of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan is on the agenda again.
• Racist attacks against Kurds on the agenda of the Parliament 

  HDP MP for Amed, Remziye Tosun raised the issue of Kurds being targeted and subjected to racist attacks on the agenda of the Parliament.
• Another application to visit Öcalan and other prisoners 

  Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has been held incommunicado on the Turkish prison island of Imrali for 22 years.
• Three jailed in Van for protesting the murder of Kurdish family in Konya 

  Three people have been imprisoned in Van for their participation in a protest against the murder of a Kurdish family in Konya.
• HDP co-chair Sancar brings solidarity to the community of Milas, hit by fires 

  HDP co-chair, Mithat Sancar, visited the community of Milas in the Aegean region to learn from the mayor about the forest fires hitting the province. Milas, in the province of Muğla, is one of the areas hit the most.
• Turkish military operation causes fire in Ömeryan-Nusaybin  

  The invading Turkish army launched an operation in three villages in Ömeryan, Nusaybin in the province of Mardin this morning. A fire broke out as the result of the operation but soldiers prevented it from being extinguished.
• Three people lynched by racists in Aydin province 

  A large group of racist people blocked roads in Aydin's Efeler district and attempted to lynch three people in a car on the pretext of wildfires.
• Armed racists stop HDP politician in Antalya 

  The co-chair of the HDP district association in Döşemaltı near Antalya, Mehmet Deniz, has been stopped by an armed group of racists.
• Kurdish workers from Urfa attacked in Çorum 

  Seasonal agriculture workers from Urfa were subjected to an attack in Çorum province amidst increasingly ongoing racist attacks against Kurdish citizens across Turkey.
• Vigil in front of UN: Shengal’s status should be recognized 

  As every Wednesday, Kurdish activists protested in front of the UN headquarters in Geneva against the international silence on the Turkish attacks on Kurdistan. This week they protested for Shengal on the 7th anniversary of the ISIS genocide.
• Advisor of HDP deputy detained in Van 

  Sinan Ok, advisor of HDP deputy Muazzez Orhan, was detained yesterday.
• KCK: "Reports that the forest fires in Turkey were set by Kurds and the PKK are a lie" 

  Denying the allegations of PKK’s involvement in the forest fires in Turkey, KCK said, “It is a serious crime to set the peoples of Turkey against each other. Those responsible for these crimes will definitely not go unpunished.”
• Main perpetrator in murder of Kurdish family in Konya caught 

  Five days after the murder of seven members of the Dedeoğulları Kurdish family in Konya, the main perpetrator Mehmet Altun has been caught on Wednesday.
• Karabulut: "Konya massacre planned in a WhatsApp group" 

  The parents, wife and sister of the main fugitive perpetrator have been arrested in connection with the seven-fold murder of a Kurdish family in Konya. The massacre was allegedly planned in a WhatsApp group.
• PIK: To end the hunger strike, Turkey must end the isolation of Ocalan and all political prisoners 

  Peace in Kurdistan Campaign said that to end the hunger strike, Turkey must end the isolation of Abdullah Ocalan and all political prisoners.